Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley personified the richly various?and contradictory?energies of his time. This compact yet comprehensive collection... more...

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet?s most important work before Four Quartets . Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature??The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,? ?Gerontion,? ?The Waste Land,? ?The Hollow Men,? and ?Ash Wednesday??as well as many other fine selections from Eliot?s early... more...

The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including ?The Garden,? ?The Definition of Love,? ?Bermudas,? ?To His Coy Mistress,? and the ?Horatian Ode? to Cromwell.... more...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism -- an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 'Christabel,'... more...

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards , and an index of first lines. more...

In his foreword to this book, Derek Mahon notes that P.J. Kavanagh?s poems ‘elude the obvious categories. He has never been one of a “school??. A poet of rural England, yet of Irish ancestry, Kavanagh ‘has always stood slightly apart?. He championed the poems of Ivor Gurney and shares with Gurney not only a personal landscape (that of Gloucestershire)... more...

“Moyra Donaldson?s poetry has grown to ignite unexpected perceptions and magnify them. Betrayals, personal and political; excavations, historical and psychic; correspondences of temperament and object; innocences pristine and varied and very much in power. The Goose Tree shows a poet treading on her own footprints; the considerable themes of her career... more...

Shakespeare's sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love requited or otherwise in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This treasure of a book collects 29 of the bard's most romantic sonnets, each one lovingly illustrated by the talented Caitlin Keegan. Pretty and contemporary, the illustrations tastefully... more...

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Keats contains a full selection of Keats's work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines. more...

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience , poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books , and an index of first lines. more...